Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-07-14
HOME AND FARM.


Try acloth wrung from cold Wa
ter put about the neck for sore throat
"A spoonful of vinegar in boiling
meat makes it tender.
The flesh of rattlesnake when
cooked is as white as milk and very
delicate.
Boil pears from twenty to thirty
enthusiastically for halves and thirty
for whole pears-using six ounces of
sugar to a quart can of fruit
If swine are to be kept on the
farm the best profits will be found in
the finest breeds that run into matured
meat the first year.-St Louis Repub-
Ecdn.
Even on the best-regulated farms
stock may be injured. Hence old
wells. half-hidden bitches and such
like should be covered or filed up.
Window plants that appear yellow
and sickly are generally found to be
suffering from two much water and
too much insect
To remove stains from cups or
other articles of tableware or marble
lied oil cloths. rub them with sale
ratus. either with the finger or piece
of linen.
Meat Cakes: One cup of chop
ped cold meat and tablespoon of cat
sup. one cup rolled crackers, one egg.
Make into cakes; fry in hot lard
baptist Weekly.
Few creatures possess in a greater
degree the virtue of gratitude and
natural kindness than the horse. He is
slow to forgive an injury, but never
forgets continued kindness.
Flour Gems: One egg, one table
spoonful of sugar. two tablespoonfuls
of butter. one and onc-half cupfuls of
sweet milk, three teaSpoonfuls of bak-
ing-pOwder. two and one-half cupfuls
of flour. Beat well. have your gem
pan hot and buttered. Pour in and
bake quick. boston Budget.
The farmer who lives on a farm
lacking in fertility should make close
calculations how many calves can be
raise and how many good ewes can be
kept. He will not be up to his privi-
leges if he does not have big field of
fodder corn to help out the cows in
dry weather and the haymow in win
ter.-Our Country Home.
Orange Pie: Rim of one orange
grated. juice of two, six tablespoon
fuls of sugar. yelks of four eggs, one
cupful of milk. one tablespoonful OF
flour, little salt; while baking beat
the whites of eggs with two table
spoonfuls of sugar, put on the pie and
brown. Use this same recipe for
lemon pie, using water with lemon in
the place of milk.-Toledo Blade.
When varnish, a few days sub
sequent to having been laid on. loses
its gloss, it is said to have .'clouded. "
This accident seldom happens except
in damp weather. A varnish freshly
spread and exposed to damp air be-
comes covered by mist which leaves
its marks upon it. This defect may
be remedied by exposure to the sum-
National VieU.
When your cane-seat chairs begin
to wear out, mend the break the best
you can by weaving in cords, or il
very bad. replace with piece of can
vas securely tackled on; put on a gen.
erous layer of cotton batting or curled
hair, and cover with piece of any
kind Of upholstery goods. an EN-.
broidcred pattern. crazy patchwork.
or large ''log-cabin" block. Finish
the edge with furniture gimp. and
fringe if desired. The back may be
finished with a similar panel.
dianapolis Journal
The farmer who keeps a flock OF
twenty-five or thirty hens, with the
usual accompaniment of a hundred or
more lively chicks, and allows them to
share his domain in common with him.
self. his other stock and farm utensils.
finds perplexity and most abominablc
company at every turn. The hen at
large. in her multiplied form. is worse
than an army of locusts. and her fol-
lowing as offensive as a pestilence.-
N y Observer.
If fat and previously healthy-ap-
pcaring fowls are found dead under
the rOOsts or on the nests the cause
may be ascribed to apoplexy. and the
feed should be at once reduced for the
rest Of the flock, as it is probable til at
all are too fat. If found alive. but
stupid. with combs and gills turned
black, bleed at once either by cutting
comb and gill or by opening the vein
under the wing. Then shower the head
with cold water and put in the hospital
on scant allowance of soft food and q
handful of green leaves to pick at
Troy Times.